Configuration

Configuration or configurations may refer to:

Computing

 * Computer configuration or system configuration
 * Configuration file, a software file used to configure the initial settings for a computer program
 * Configurator, also known as choice board, design system, or co-design platform, used in product design to capture customers' specifications
 * Configure script ("./configure" in Unix), the output of Autotools; used to detect system configuration
 * CONFIG.SYS, the primary configuration file for DOS and OS/2 operating systems

Mathematics

 * Configuration (geometry), a finite set of points and lines with certain properties
 * Configuration (polytope), special kind of configuration for regular polytopes
 * Configuration space (mathematics), a space representing assignments of points to non-overlapping positions on a topological space

Physics

 * Configuration space (physics), in classical mechanics, the vector space formed by the parameters of a system
 * Electron configuration, the distribution of electrons of an atom or molecule
 * Molecular configuration, the permanent geometry that results from the spatial arrangement of molecular bonds
 * Configuron, a quasiparticle

History

 * Historical configuration of the province of Granada

Other uses

 * Configuration (locomotive parts), denoting the number of leading, driving, and trailing axles on a locomotive
 * Configuration management, a systems engineering quality control process
 * Configurational analysis, a method of studying human behaviour.
 * Configurations (journal), an academic journal established in 1993 by the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts